Brought to you by Weetbix.Grab your tickets and jump aboard. We’re going for a trip down memory lane, where neon is everywhere {including on your shoelaces}, hair is BIG and bike-pants are totally in {the louder the pattern the better}. We’re getting there aboard this rather vintage bus thanks to Weetbix. Read on to find out how to win a sweet trip {family holiday} plus a Go Pro camera too.
Pixie Photos.
Your whole family put on their best clothes, did their fringes, chose the perfect backdrop material and had their photos taken. {Oh god, I can’t believe I’m sharing that photo}.
One word: Agro.
Was I the only kid to get dressed super early and jam pack as much Agro-viewing into my morning before school? You did it too? Knew I wasn’t the only one.
Well, Weetbix. The collectable cricket cards and out Weetbixing your mates.
Yep. “How many do you do?” was actually something you asked your friends in the school yard, and you’d fist pump if you could do 3 or 4. You collected those cards like your life depended on it, and you didn’t even like cricket.
Saved By The Bell, and your oh-so-real crush on Zack.
You were totally going to get married when you grew up. If only he had a thing for chubby Australian girls, hey?
Summers were spent scouring for any watering hole.
River, creek, beach, local pool, neighbourhood pool, and there was that time you got so desperate that you made a slide out of garbage bags, dishwashing liquid and the sprinkler.
Staying out til the lights came on.
Did our parents even care where we were? We only had to come home to eat, pee or to call it a night when the street lights came on.
Marbles.
You’d dig a hole, and flick those babies with skill. You knew which one was the cats eye, and which was the one you didn’t want to lose. But you did and you were heartbroken for all of 11.4 minutes.
Judy Blume.
Best author EVER, alongside Roald Dahl. And the smell of new books. That’s when the love affair began.
When you woke too early, and the TV had no shows.
Just that colourful image and some weird opera music.
The family road trip.
Your folks saved and saved and saved and then you jumped into the Tarago and drove through the night {which took like FOREVER} all the way to the Gold Coast to stay for a week {but in the cool part, in some motel in the middle of nowhere}. And you had to choose a theme park to visit. Just one.
One person is going to win the Ultimate Aussie Fun getaway for their family {for four} on the sunny Gold Coast, Gold season passes to Wet N Wild, plus a Go Pro Hero 4 camera to capture all the fun moments and $500 spending money. To be in the running you just have a snap a photo of your idea of Aussie Fun and share it.
Share it on Facebook: You can pop over to my Facebook page and upload your photo to the Facebook wall. Add the hashtag #RaisedOnWeetbix in your comments
Share it on Instagram: Head over to Instagram and upload your photo, tag me @fatmumslim and add the hashtag #RaisedOnWeetbix. Your profile must be public for me to see it.
Share it on Twitter: Share your photo, as well as the hashtag #Raised on Weetbix and tag me too @fatmumslim.
The competition has kicked off now, so start sharing your photos {one image per person, per day}. It finishes at midnight on February 28th 2015. Go forth and have some Aussie Fun!
Love this! Sooooo many memories just came flooding back!
JUDY BLUME all the way!
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Oh heck, this takes me back! Agro? Tick! Saved By The Bell? Tick! Add to that Sweet Valley High, Video Hits, The Secret World of Alex Mack and Party of Five (not to mention my crush on Scott Wolf). Sigh! Those were the days!
I actually stayed in Australia (Perth) for 3 months in the 90’s I was 9 turning 10. I remember the road trips the motels and playing marbels, loved it. Thanks for bringing back fond memories. 🙂
my 6 year old has just discovered marbles – I keep having flashbacks of my little bro and lugging our marble bags around as I see Charlie carrying his bag around 🙂 Now I need to google how to play as I can’t remember – and he has no friends with them to teach him!
love the family portrait <3
Love, love, love this! The family photo you did a show and tell on? Those transcend time and space. Ours was shot in the 70s–half way ’round and upside the world from you–but it has much the same feel.
Yes on the family holiday, and color bars in the early a.m., and being outside all day.
Our author was Beverly Cleary. And the food was Flinstone’s Chewable vitamins…or Life cereal…or Oscar Mayer bologna and hot dogs.
Miss those days, those years, that silly simple era, and the boy who lived it.
Thanks for the walk back, Chantelle. I enjoyed it. 🙂
haha, love the TV, or is it no TV, image : )
What about Rage from 6am when they actually played top 40 and then Video Hits. Oooh, and taping your fave songs off the radio onto a cassette and then playing it back line by line and writing down the lyrics – I suppose only if your parents didn’t buy you the latest smash hits to get the lyrics!
oh god, I love WeetBix and I’m really hungry now!
That weird test pattern screen – I MISS THAT! 24 hour ABC tv is strange. Remember when they stopped showing kids programming at like, 11 and didn’t come back on til after school?
PS Video Hits.
Ahahah so true! I had posters of Saved by the Bells actors in my room 🙂 In France, all French girls around my age had a big big big gigantic crush on Drazic on Heartbreak High…It was a really popular show there!
Love this list! My mum actually still has one of these photos up on her lounge room wall – I’m totally rocking it in my Fluoro shortalls with matching pink scarf in my hair 😉
Ha ha so much 90’s love! I loved Saved by the Bell hard. But I am trying hard to repress the fluro green overalls, crazy fluro patterend lycra bike pants and permed fringe phase. Yikes. They were my experimental years.
I’m not an Aussi, so I admit I did not know the first three, but HELLO to Saved by the Bell, curly fringe bangs, and we adored a little set of books and tv series called Little House on the Prairie…we friggin loved being pioneers;)
Great memories!!! 🙂
I was obsessed with marbles and Agro and fluro shoelaces and jelly shoes and scrunchies argh so many bad things in one decade lol. And pixie photos, why were our parents obsessed with those?
You nailed it with this list. Loved your photo!
I can so relate to the “When you woke too early, and the TV had now shows.”
Loved watching wonder years too..
Feeling nostalgic now 🙂
Ah yes, the ‘test pattern’ haha
Love this post! Talk about memory lane, I feel like it was my childhood! My hubby and I were just having that conversation about kids playing outside and how there are so many rules now. We used to play until the street lights came on and go for bike rides for hours on end and play in building sites (all this without phones and chaperones). Maybe the fringes, high hair and neon was the price for freedom, lol! Chantal, Seek Dare Love
Ah, the joys of childhood! When a road trip was a driving holiday and no one used that phrase outside of an American movie!
Yup coming home when the street lights came on, playing ‘forts’ in the rainforest, swimming in a weir or waterfall, hot chip rolls and white knight bars. Frozen sunny boys and paddle pops and if we wanted to see a friend we rode to their house and asked if they could come out to play LOL Watching rage on Saturday mornings was ace and aerobics was soo cool but I sucked at it!
Yep, totally agree Jenni – this was my childhood as well – you have nailed the extra bits that weren’t on Chantelle’s list! I think that just means we are getting old!
Love it! I WENT to a breakfast taping of Agro’s Super Saturday Show (that was what it was called right?) Loved it but they gave out toothpaste to the kids. Weird how that stuck in my mind! Vaguely remember a portly dude called Boris dressed in a skeleton costume as well.
Pretty sure that was Boris the Black Knight on Boris’ Breakfast Club! He was a highlight of our weekend mornings. I shudder to think now!
Boris the Black Knight – that’s the one! children’s entertainment sure has changed since back in the day 🙂
Agro’s Cartoon Connection is what I remember it as and It was on week days though…maybe there were a few Saturday specials, I can’t remember
Oh my goodness Judy Blume!!!!! My folks went to one of those Lifeline Books Sales and came home with boxes of books and “Hello God, It’s Me Margaret” was one of the treasures in there that first introduced me to her. Oh, and on a side note, my 7 year old “does 6”. How he can possibly manage it I have absolutely no idea, he’s so petite!
I think we had the same childhood! Except we were immigrants and I hit the ground running like an Aussie and my parents always looked at me like I was an alien.
I graduated from uni in 1990 and was running a business with my partner in the mid 1990s. My memories of the 1990s are very different!!
You wore overalls. And you thought Alanis was SO alternative and SO cool.
My quintessential 90’s mufti day look was an oversized jumper with tights, slouchy socks and hiking style boots. How good were slouchy socks?!
THAT picture is GOLD!!.. I could do 3 but Kitty goes 4.. and Judy Blume.. oh the memories!
That photo is quite special. We had a Tarago too! We called it the Traggles or the Bongo Bus. I always baggsed the very back seat because then I didn’t have to touch either of my siblings. And I could read all the “rude” bits in Judy Blume without anyone looking over my shoulder. (It also meant Mum couldn’t reach me with the hair brush she used to whack our legs if we were fighting while she was driving. Ace driving skills mum!)
Haha Pixie Photos were synonymous with teased fringes. I love it!